The good news is that I finally have a job. It has taken over 6 months, longer than any gap in employment I have ever had. I was able to traverse it with Julia's support and the support of friends and family. Skip and Mom, as well as Julia's parents were absolutely vital toward accomplishing this as well. I've done a lot of neat things in this time, but the emotional and financial drain has made a vast scaling back of my goals in an unprecedented fashion. Many will be reduced by 50% to reflect these dire circumstances. I will include more details in future weekly posts.
Goals 2013
Physical
Primary: Get to 250lbs by July 20th. - Shifting to End of year. Can do. Will do.
-Weight fluctuating between 265 and 270. Set goal for end of year at 260 with further reduction next year.
Secondary: Go to 60 Yoga Classes. - At 11. I have started the habit and can make 60 by the end of the year though.
Reset goal level to 25, which puts me at 50% performance thus far.
Mental
Primary: Read the following 6 books:
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks by Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone by Immanuel Kant
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View D. Michael Quinn
The Complete Works of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Water of Life - Michael Mead
Reducing this to 3 books. I have already read Nitzche, Kant and Early Mormanism so technically this is done. I've also read 1/2 the water of life. I'm going to read One Hundred Years of solitude and post shakespear to next year.
Secondary: Learn 48 French phrases.
Maintaining this goal in its entirety. Will begin in earnest later this month.
Emotional
Primary: Abstain from Paranoia.B+
Secondary: Continue optimism.B+
No need for reduced scope.
Spiritual
Primary: Write one poem a month in soul forging. B
Reducing, and I will count at the end of the year. 6.
Social
Primary: Take Julia dancing 12 times in 2013. B
Reducing to 6. So far we have done 2.
Secondary: Hang out with friends at least once a week. A
Made impossible to complete due to circumstances.
First Life: Retired.
Second Life
Primary Goal: Finish Forever West by the end of the year. B+
First draft completed.
Secondary Goal: Write Tossing Grenades at Windmills in National Novel Writing Month. N/A
Doing Nanowrmo....unsure if it will be Tossing.
Third Life
Primary
Goal: Operation RUR schedued for production in an actual physical
location charging money for admittance at least once by the end of 2013.
N/A
This was changed to Lunacy. Not in my hands.
Changed to another play and dependent on others,
but for efforts to launch..."A". Also replaced by "Join and Participate
in Working Title in July 2013."
Failure but excused due to events.
Secondary Goal: Film Project Chaylite in 2013 or another short film.
Scuttled due to lack of interest w. partner. A on my part.
Fourth Life
Primary Goal: Initiate Project Horribly Inappropriate and remake yearly investment budget in RAA.
Completed.
Secondary Goal: Project Red Attack Tagging viable for its intended goal.
Parameters: Website, trial with 5-6, hire 1-2 agents.
Current B
Fifth Life
Primary Goal: Project Chysalis II.
A.
Secondary Goal: Decide and Enact the Year of the Kane Eagle.
Completed. A.
Sixth Life
Primary Goal: Write in Eagle as Phoenix Once a Week.
C-, changing this goal to once a month. Missed Sept. Reducing more. Try to finish up to 50% of constitution by the end of the year.
Secondary Goal: Operation Evict Reed.
N/A. I've looked but no outlet visible. Will keep looking.
Incidentals
Earn my PMP.
**Investigated. Defaulting until 2014 due to advice. Starting document recreation in 2 weeks.
Write the script for Earth and Sea and Star and Sky.
**Not done but doable.
Write the League of Christmas Darkness Dodecaology.
**Way behind on this. Goal is 6 out of 12 by the end of the year.
Reach the half way mark in the Egress fund.
Briefly reached. Unemployment killed. Now N/A
Somehow make the Mosaic Inglemia campaign idea work.
Done. A
Julia's Goals
1. Get straight A's in her classes toward her MLA degree.
2. Lose 10lbs by July 20, 2013.
3. Stay physically afterwards and maintain that.
4. Obtain a full time job.
**These are Julia's to comment on but she looks like she's doing kickass on them to me....
Marriage Goals
1. Remain patient and communicative in our relationship.
2. Datenight at least once a week.
3. Successfully complete and ENJOY the wedding.
4. Decide Starter City.
**1
and 2 are "A-" since there is always room for improvement. 3 is done. 4 is we have a transition city, and a target city, and a secondary city so I'm calling this completed.
Life Goals - "At some point"
1. See the Louvre.
**2015.
2. Travel around the world on a one way trip. Japan, Australia, India, Egypt, London, Italy and Hawaii.
** Goal to see all by 2018. Egypt pending political situation.
3. Learn a martial art.
**Done
5. Assemble a band for a tour based on music written by me.
6. Start a successful business.
Started
in 2011. "Success" is determined in this case by an operating profit of
400% invested capital or $10000. 2011-2015. Otherwise 'failure' and
goal removed from dock.
**I'm trying a lot here, but the results aren't being kind. But I still have 2 more years.
**Red Anvil Tagging has a great deal of potential given invested capital. This could prove an exception since it is a separate business than Red Anvil Creative.
7. Learn a musical instrument.
Slated 2015
8. Sculpt something memorable.
9. Create or help create a graphic novel.
**Completed. [And also permanently dead :( ]
10. Own a plane, sailboat, taught or ultralight and learn to pilot/sail it.
11. Write seven novels.
**5 of 7 done. 5th and 6th slated for 2013
13. Go on a cruise.
2015-2016.
14. Organize a convention on SOMETHING.
16. Build a house (not necessarily my own.)
17. Own my own home (all own, no mortgage)
Slated 2018-2019.
18. Have a room with a secret passage
Slated 2018-2019.
23. Be in a flash mob dance number.
2014
26. Live the fifth life (who knows what that is)
Doing.
27. Ditto the sixth.
Doing.
28. Ditto the seventh.
Doing.
47. Finish 7 films. (3 out of 7 completed).
2015.
48. Enter a remote controlled airplane tournament and place in the upper half.
49. Enter a competitive Kite contest (the kind with the razors on the wings.)
50. Blow something up with Dynamite. (Legally)
51. Join the Masons.
2014. Maybe.
52. Hypnotize someone.
Done.
53. Firewalk.
54. Visit the Library of Congress
2014.
55. Complete 7 Projects of Significance. [1 of 7 done.]
Project Chrysalis and Chrysalis II are go. Working on Chrysalis III.
If
the right door opens....(ie interesting goals that either depend on
another person or a significant amount of wealth that may never happen
but that I want to write down)
29. Marry the Right Person. [2013]
Done! :D
30. Establish a business empire dedicated to a not for profit foundation.
31. Visit (but do not live in) Space.
32. Buy my own island.
35. Create a functional and profitable news network that actually produces what is independent.
36. Create an institution to focus on pure research.
38. "" Neurological regeneration.
39. Paid Angel agents to quietly and anonymously do good.
40.
Create a series of libraries (10) dedicate to principles original to
libraries. Secular sanctuaries and temples to knowledge.
43. Breed dogs to live twice as long
**Strangely
some people are surprisingly responsive to this. This might move to
more realistic within 3-4 years when/if I own a house.
44. Create 3 patents.
45. Own and that is entirely self-sufficient w. energy, food and other items.
46. Become a Father.
Bucket List (the Bucket in the Bucket….IE, I no longer care about this but might change my mind.)
4. Competitively enter a fencing competition.
